Rome, Italy, Mar 29, 2011 / 12:02 pm
Archbishop Piero Marini, who served as Pope John Paul II’s master of liturgical ceremonies, said the late Pope's beatification will be “a chance for all to reconnect with this friend of humanity.”
We must all “encounter John Paul II anew, listen to him again, interpret his gestures once more and be enthralled by his love for evangelization,” the archbishop said in a March 27 interview with Vatican Radio.
The late Pope will be beatified May 1.
Archbishop Marini, the current head of the Vatican's committee for International Eucharistic Congresses, encouraged Catholics to “foster holiness in their lives by responding to the vocation the Lord has given with humility and simplicity, as John Paul II did in dedicating his life to proclaiming the Gospel.”